Syrian, Cuba to Boost Health Cooperation
DAMASCUS, (ST)-Health Minister Nizar Yazigi and Cuba’s Ambassador to Syria Rogerio Manuel Santana Rodriguez on Sunday discussed methods of enhancing health cooperation particularly in the domain of ensuring qualitative medicines.
Yazigi stressed the need to put a mechanism as to provide Syria with qualitative medicines and vaccines from Cuba in order to contribute to meeting Syria’s needs of medicines and healthcare technologies in accordance with the agreement signed between the two countries.
He asserted the importance of benefiting from the Cuban medical and scientific centers and transferring the Cuban expertise to Syria which is under unjust economic siege that notably affected the health sector.
On his part, the Cuban ambassador affirmed his government’s keenness on deepening cooperation between the two counties especially in the health field.
In December 2015, Syria and Cuba signed an agreement and a memorandum of understanding aiming to provide Syria with its needs of vaccines as well as anti-cancer drugs and to establish factories for producing biological preparations.
Hamda Mustafa